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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 1998, 11:59 AM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1998, 11:59 AM CDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLennan County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 171657 FFWFTW TXC309-172000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1159 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCLENNAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 11 50 AM...BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MCLENNAN COUNTY. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE CRAWFORD AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES RAIN IS EXPECTED BY 3 PM. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 10:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ146-171615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1048 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998 AT 1044 AM NAVARRO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS A TORNADO ON THE WEST SIDE OF CORSICANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. RESIDENTS ON THE WEST AND NORTH SIDES OF CORSICANA TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 10:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ146-171615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1048 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998 AT 1044 AM NAVARRO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS A TORNADO ON THE WEST SIDE OF CORSICANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. RESIDENTS ON THE WEST AND NORTH SIDES OF CORSICANA TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 10:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 28 min |
| Oct 17, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 11:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 56 min |
| Oct 17, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 48 min |
| Oct 17, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 1:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 3 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.